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Extraction of potassium into magmas and outgassing of argon during melting constrain the relative amounts of potassium in the crust with respect to those of argon in the atmosphere. No more than 30% of the modern mass of the continents was subducted back i ...

2000

A simple chondritic model of Mars

Philippe Gillet

SNC meteorites (Shergottites, Nakhlites and Chassigny) define a fractionation line in a delta(17)O/delta(18)O diagram as expected for rocks differentiated from a formerly homogenized parent body, which is intermediate between H ordinary chondrites and EH e ...

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Comparison of diapycnal diffusivity measured by tracer and microstructure techniques

Alfred Johny Wüest

Estimates of vertical diffusivity inferred from microstructure measurements in the 2 thermocline of the open ocean (approximately 0.1 cm(2) s(-1)) are typically an order of magnitude smaller than values obtained with basin-wide tracer balances (approximate ...

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